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macOS Detecting network path

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ithil

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 2, 2006
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Hi all,

Is there any way to detect whether a selected path is on local disk or network path? Or is there any equivalent for Windows API 'PathIsUNC' which detects whether the selected path is network path or not.

Thanks.
 
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mrichmon

macrumors 6502a
Jun 17, 2003
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slooksterPSV said:
Under OS X, if you log into a server for your home directory, then you cross over into the network via /private/server_name/users_folder ...
so you could enumerate the path to the Home Directory and test to see if /private is one of those paths, if it is, then you know that the user's home directory is on a network volume. Also your other connected volumjes digg deep into private. You'll have to view it yourself and figure it out.
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/private has no bearing on whether a directory is on a local filesystem or on a remote filesystem. AFP mounted shares for example have no record under /private unless you specifically change the automounter default mount location.

The original poster should look at the XCode Reference library, specifically, Cocoa->File Management->Low-Level File Management Programming Topics. This document has a section "Locating Directories on the System" which discusses the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains class. I believe that this class will allow you to identify local and remote directories using "Local" and "Network" domains as a mask when obtaining the directory objects.
 
slooksterPSV

slooksterPSV

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Apr 17, 2004
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mrichmon said:
/private has no bearing on whether a directory is on a local filesystem or on a remote filesystem. AFP mounted shares for example have no record under /private unless you specifically change the automounter default mount location.

The original poster should look at the XCode Reference library, specifically, Cocoa->File Management->Low-Level File Management Programming Topics. This document has a section "Locating Directories on the System" which discusses the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains class. I believe that this class will allow you to identify local and remote directories using "Local" and "Network" domains as a mask when obtaining the directory objects.
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That's good to know - that was the only way I knew how to test for it because I knew everything routed through /private on the macs at my school to connect to the AFP shares.
Also I just barely read about something like that, the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains so I had just barely read that section a while after I made that post. Thanx for the info.
 
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